BOSTON -- Records show that the leading Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts identified her race as "white" on an employment record at the University of Texas and declined to apply for admission to Rutgers Law School under a program for minority students.
The records on Elizabeth Warren were obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. Warren's heritage has been under scrutiny after it surfaced that she had listed herself as having Native American heritage in law school directories.
Warren's campaign said the records reinforce her earlier statements that she never relied on a claim of minority status to get teaching jobs. She has criticized the campaign of Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown for suggesting that might be the case.
A third document obtained by the AP Thursday indicated that the University of Pennsylvania, where Warren also worked, identified her as a minority professor.
Brown has called on Warren to release all law school applications and personnel files from the universities where she taught.
Warren worked at the University of Texas from 1983 to 1987, when she took a job at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
A report by a committee established to review the status of minority faculty at the University of Pennsylvania identifies Warren as a minority, however, without elaborating.
The new documents paint a fuller picture of Warren's law school record.
On the Rutgers application, Warren wrote "No" in response to the question: "Are you interested in applying for admission under the Program for Minority Group Students?"

09-26-2012, 11:49 AM

huntinman

And Obama did not blame the embassy attacks on some dumb video...

09-26-2012, 11:56 AM

gmhr1

The Democratic candidate’s troubles began last week when it was revealed that Harvard once described Warren as a Native American minority. Warren doesn’t publicly refer to herself that way.
It was also revealed that Warren described herself as a Native American minority in professional lawschool directories during the 1980s and ’90s.
Warren immediately denied that she briefly considered herself a Native American minority to help advance her career when schools were looking to boost minority hires.
On Wednesday the Boston Herald reported that Warren now claims she did this to meet others with Native American ancestry.

The Democratic candidate’s troubles began last week when it was revealed that Harvard once described Warren as a Native American minority. Warren doesn’t publicly refer to herself that way.

The Harvard Law professor is now claiming she knows she has American Indian blood because a female relative told her that her grandfather had “high cheek bones like all the Indians do.” and she has the same cheekbones.

It was also revealed that Warren described herself as a Native American minority in professional lawschool directories during the 1980s and ’90s.
Warren immediately denied that she briefly considered herself a Native American minority to help advance her career when schools were looking to boost minority hires.
On Wednesday the Boston Herald reported that Warren now claims she did this to meet others with Native American ancestry.